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OK so I noticed there isn't exactly a lot of development for the Streak, personally I don't like butchering existing roms, I would rather build from source, this is what I do for the HTC Desire and is hopefully what I intend to do for the Dell Streak.
Android has been built from source for a variety of devices within the XDA community so why not the Dell Streak? Well this is where I am hoping to change things.
I've started work on a vendor so we can build Android from source for the Streak.
My work is available here
If anybody else has experience and wants to contribute please let me know.
I estimate its about 80% complete at the moment and I'm hoping to get it provisionally finished by tonight or tomorrow, and then I will try and build Eclair as a first.
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OK so I noticed there isn't exactly a lot of development for the Streak, personally I don't like butchering existing roms, I would rather build from source, this is what I do for the HTC Desire and is hopefully what I intend to do for the Dell Streak.
Android has been built from source for a variety of devices within the XDA community so why not the Dell Streak? Well this is where I am hoping to change things.
I've started work on a vendor so we can build Android from source for the Streak.
My work is available here
If anybody else has experience and wants to contribute please let me know.
I estimate its about 80% complete at the moment and I'm hoping to get it provisionally finished by tonight or tomorrow, and then I will try and build Eclair as a first.
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Sounds great! Would it be also possible to have the htc sence homescreen on the dell streak??? That would be great! ...already tryed it on my HD2 with Froyo Build and it is awsome!
YAY AdamG
we have development!!!
whoooooo
nice to see you over here i sold my desire but i used your roms
Finally we can see some custom built roms now for the streak coming up
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I'm trying a froyo build for the Streak now, wifi and bluetooth will probably be broke initially but I'm hoping that the graphics, sound and radioif will be ok.
AdamG said:
I'm trying a froyo build for the Streak now, wifi and bluetooth will probably be broke initially but I'm hoping that the graphics, sound and radioif will be ok.
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Brilliant news! Let us know how it goes!
cool, a few of us have been trying with the codearoura git.
there's issues with building a valid boot.img and it looks like the 1,6 kernel is a mashup of various ones..
I think its time to start applying pressure to Dell to get them to release the source code now..
AdamG, I am using your custom ROM on HTC desire and its awesome. I'm really glad that you are gonna be working on Rom for dell streak which I'm getting in few days time.
Your work is awesome. Thank-you.
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fards said:
cool, a few of us have been trying with the codearoura git.
there's issues with building a valid boot.img and it looks like the 1,6 kernel is a mashup of various ones..
I think its time to start applying pressure to Dell to get them to release the source code now..
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I wouldn't recommend using the codeaurora git, the people who work on that submit most of the patches to gerrit, so the AOSP git contains most of the enhancements of codeaurora.
Dell should of released the kernel long ago, all other major vendors have done it and I don't see what makes them any different.
Everything would be fine if Dell released their damn kernel source (like their lawfully required to)
Regardless, i'm looking forward to your work Adam! I'm having ROM-flash-withdrawal symptoms
Just thought I would add, I think we will lose the camera completely if we want to use Froyo, the older 1.6 libcamera.so is not compatible. The new 2.1 release from Dell might work, so if anybody has 2.1 on their Streak let me know.
I use my streak for media, surfing and gaming so I'm up for getting rid of the camera if I can have flash 10.1 and jit. Looking forward to your release.
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can all those who are registered on the dell community forums ( I can't login) please make a formal request for the source code for the streak.
Remind them that they MUST release it and quickly to be compliant with the GPL..
that other companies manage to get the source code out the same time the devices are released, and that the streak has been available in the UK for quite a while now..
If they don't comply with due haste then we will get gpl-violations involved..
the more that post the better..
Well I got froyo built for the Streak, but the boot image is stuck in a boot loop so I'm trying to see what the problem is at the moment.
Note the discussion here.
hxxp://android.modaco.com/content-page/315099/generating-boot-img-for-dell-streak/page/20/#
kwaaq said:
Note the discussion here.
hxxp://android.modaco.com/content-page/315099/generating-boot-img-for-dell-streak/page/20/#
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thanks for the link, I applied those changes but its still boot looping, I think its something more to do with the init scripts.
Adam, If you get a froyo rom out I promise the first thing I'll do after booting into it is install the Paypal app and buy you a beer ;-)
I'll buy u 10 !
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Great work, keep it up
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great effort, guys, I'll follow this with interest. I was contemplating buying the Streak whilst visiting the USA as it's so much cheaper than the UK, but then I found out even off-contract they're locked to ATT!! I'm sure with some community effort the Streak will become recognised as one of the great android devices.
might be worth dropping a note to this blog
http://www.streaksmart.com/
about this new initiative?
http://opensource.dell.com/releases/streak/
Let the custom rom's come pouring in.
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boo to the buggy 2.1, yay to those that will fix it and make it useable.
boo to dell for releasing yet another near useless kernel
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http://opensource.dell.com/releases/streak/
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2.06? It doesn't even build properly...
smokku said:
2.06? It doesn't even build properly...
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Its a friday build
See this from Cyanogenmod forum posted by photopuppet:
At least the support for it is strong.
If any of you people reading this have Twitter, make sure you take a quick minute to hit up @LionelatDell @mdomsch and @DellCares with a comment indicating your displeasure and demanding a full source release! Remember to add #dell and #dellstreak tags too.
If you have extra time, also send an e-mail reporting this problem at www.gpl-violations.org
The more people we can get on-board with protest, the more attention this issue will get!
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Lets hope they sort it out in the next few days or so *hoping* >.<
new one up today............hope it's good
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new one up today............hope it's good
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its good hipeeeeeeeeeeee
has anyone compiled this into an easy update?
How to install the 2.1 on the dell streak?
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has anyone compiled this into an easy update?
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there is NO point in "updating" to this, its only the SOURCE for the kernel thats already installed on your streak, its useful so devs can compile different modules into the kernel to enable things like "Wifi tether for root users" other BlueZ enhancments, etc... obviously having the source makes it easier to port Froyo and Vanilla 2.1 builds. Once again, this doesn't pertain to you unless you are able to compile it yourself, if you have questions, well its probably not something that you need to even worry about.
Hey guys, while I understand that questions don't normally go here, I figured this one was ok because it hasn't really been asked before and it seems like a pretty important question. I was wondering which devs were porting the captivate froyo rom to the vibrant? Unfortuanantly, I can't code, but I'm certainly willing to donate and beta test if someone is up to the job. Fyi, I know this is already posted in q&a , I'll request its deletion.
-thanks, bobofosho123
Eugene373 is working on it. But apparently it suffers the same issues as the i9000 leaks.
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bobofosho123 said:
Thanks for the info guys, so much for my hopes of a quick and fully working froyo port, Go eugene GO!
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His 2.2 rom is stable enough for daily use. ive been using it for 2 days and dammm! Try it out, you wont be dissapointed.
Alex530 said:
His 2.2 rom is stable enough for daily use. ive been using it for 2 days and dammm! Try it out, you wont be dissapointed.
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I've used it, but the wifi doesn't work, there still isn't a "bug-free" enough version of froyo for the vibrant to justify me flashing it, which I've done in the past only to revert to some other 2.1 rom, all i really want is flash though...I don't care about froyo too much beyond that.
Eugene_373 tweeted he had it running on his and he would have an upload soon.
*Shrug* past that.
All I know is that I'm running Froyo_R3 on my Vibrant, and have yet to really run into any problems besides the fact that randomly the messaging app will open something else random. That got fixed with ChompSMS
gothdroid said:
All I know is that I'm running Froyo_R3 on my Vibrant, and have yet to really run into any problems besides the fact that randomly the messaging app will open something else random. That got fixed with ChompSMS
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And, you have broken GPS and a bunch of other important things
Whats your lin pack + quad scores running that rom?
Thanks
But GPS was always broken in the first place.
rhcp0112345 said:
And, you have broken GPS and a bunch of other important things
Whats your lin pack + quad scores running that rom?
Thanks
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slynkie said:
But GPS was always broken in the first place.
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Yes but the leaked builds have working gps.....
I thought wifi was still broken on Eugene's latest froyo rom, correct? Last time I flashed the froyo_r3 rom it caused my phone to spazz out and keep cycling through off and the lock screen. Has that been fixed?
GPS is going to be Broken until we get a Leak, it's not like we have source!
Linpack? Quadrant? Sad if you Depend on those score's to consider it Fast
Regarding R3, Key mapping issue & GPS is Broke, that's about it.
Regarding the ATT build, I have it running fine, but why Post it when it has the same issue's as the I9000 but worst! The key mapping could be fixed on the ATT but the ATT kernel has Sounds issue that can't be fixed as it's kernel related..
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GPS is going to be Broken until we get a Leak, it's not like we have source!
Linpack? Quadrant? Sad if you Depend on those score's to consider it Fast
Regarding R3, Key mapping issue & GPS is Broke, that's about it.
Regarding the ATT build, I have it running fine, but why Post it when it has the same issue's as the I9000 but worst! The key mapping could be fixed on the ATT but the ATT kernel has Sounds issue that can't be fixed as it's kernel related..
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Hey, a response from the man of the hour himself , thanks!
I'm Using R1 b/c of the sound issue
and it is fast
ah, I enjoy flash 10.1
it's actually really smooth
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You guys don’t get it…so maybe we will need to start banning people for breaking the rules. If there is a thread that is posted in the wrong section DO NOT personally attack the OP and start using foul language.
…just report the thread…I will move it.
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Ok I am quickly growing tired of cleaning this stuff up...14 posts deleted.
Thread moved to Q&A where it belongs.
You guys don’t get it…so maybe we will need to start banning people for breaking the rules. If there is a thread that is posted in the wrong section DO NOT personally attack the OP and start using foul language.
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sorry about posting in the wrong section krook, and thnx for the heads-up, appreciate it man.
Yeah, until we get an official kernel source for the vibrant, porting the captivate 2.2 will still be buggy.
Hello People, I'm Moon And trough my world of android have i gotten lowend devices for own use. i love them because they're so cheap and still Great.
I have come from the GT540 Optimus to the ZTE blade and now the x8,
(I kept the Blade trough.) I am a big fan of Racht and his sense ports, what i want to ask you people for, since Racht seems to have disappeared should we do what developers and friends of him do. We finish what he started.
Most important is currently The GL Drivers I think, Maybe some RAM Management. The free ram is very low. (about 40\50mb) This causes Rosie to reload after coming from other apps. this would be cool to fix.
I asked XDA MEMBER # Kenia1234 (he ported it to the SGS)
About 3d\open gl and wifi. this was his reply.
however as regards 3D I fixed it using my device's libs under system/lib/egl or under /vendor/lib/egl and of course using a CM7 powered kernel...
as regards the wifi, it's a little bit more complicated...you'd need to have the bins of your device under /system/bin and the firmwares all in order, as the kernel wants to...
hope this was useful!!
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Yes it was useful Thank you. any other Sense porters please contact us.
I know a little about this but not enough to do it myself yet.
Thank you in case of that you want to help.
~Updates~
XDA MEMBER # Paul1989 Is doing great work on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1294461
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I haven't seen racht's new post since I join xda.
Does anyone know how's he doing?
kevinlogix said:
I haven't seen racht's new post since I join xda.
Does anyone know how's he doing?
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I think he needs a little rest...
racht said that he will port HTC kernel and that means fully working Sense rom as soon as he's back.
I don't know where he is or what is he doing, but he's on xda often. (last activity today).
And I think he's getting Xperia Ray - his post here. Also that's the last thing he posted.
Anyway, the man will spoke, and we shoud donate to him a new device if he's selling his one. To continue development. But, we need to wait until the man spokes!!
I appreciate racht so much, and I hope he doesn't forget our X8.
OH.
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racht said that he will port HTC kernel and that means fully working Sense rom as soon as he's back.
I don't know where he is or what is he doing, but he's on xda often. (last activity today).
And I think he's getting Xperia Ray - his post here. Also that's the last thing he posted.
Anyway, the man will spoke, and we shoud donate to him a new device if he's selling his one. To continue development. But, we need to wait until the man spokes!!
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I See, Thanks for Providing this information to the masses.
The Ray is the best Choice after the Arc, For me, Since i like big screens.
But yes. Lets just hope for the best. the Guy i updated on, (On the op) is doing GB sense too. We should let Racht Rest and hope for the best.
In racht's last Sense Port there is a lot of bugs. I really love that rom but it has a lot of bugs.
I was without SIM Card and in the Notification Bar it was showing that i used %S(something like this) tries for the unlock key and blablabla.
SD Safe to remove bug in ROOT Apps
I tried to connect the phone to my car radio and it doesn't show anything in the phone, only the icon changed to charging, but no led, no popup for connecting, nothing. And the radio does not recognized the phone. (i think it will happen the same in the computer, i think)
3d, wifi, 3G and vibra not working, as it shows on the original topic
So this is what has to be worked on
I cannot help you so much because i'm not a good java developer, i can only understand some parts of the code, but i cannot write it. But if you want a beta tester i'm here to try to find the maximum bugs i can
I will love if someone could continue what Racht did
I am following the news.
As I have said some months ago, X8 is now added to official CM tree, you can see here :
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=shakira
So, I guess thats the end of CM story (even that I prefer tweaks by doixanh).
Sense rom depends on kernel features that do not work on .29 kernels.
See HTC threads, all new roms require .32 or .35 kernels, lets hope X8 will get a new kernel ported.
And thanks again for support
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I am following the news.
As I have said some months ago, X8 is now added to official CM tree, you can see here :
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=shakira
So, I guess thats the end of CM story (even that I prefer tweaks by doixanh).
Sense rom depends on kernel features that do not work on .29 kernels.
See HTC threads, all new roms require .32 or .35 kernels, lets hope X8 will get a new kernel ported.
And thanks again for support
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Great to see your alive Racht! And whut o:? does this mean that this rom is a fully working CM7 release like my Blade has?
And Yes, I've heard about the basics of porting sense.
Even trough you would be the best teacher.
Does this mean That Your Leaving the Shakira forums now racht?
wow! is this ROM stable knowing that it came from cyanogen?? please can someone confirm this? it doesn't have any details of its features included on it...
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wow! is this ROM stable knowing that it came from cyanogen?? please can someone confirm this? it doesn't have any details of its features included on it...
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Dude, thats the wrong topic. But look at the type or search for details of the features here at xda -.-
Paul1989 said:
sorry i have to abandon you all i am moving to HTC as i have swapped phones with my brother. i will NOT be carrying this project on and now i leave in the hands ov the other dev's on this forum. sorry to do this but ide rather have a HTC
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As he wrote, he wouldn't be developing sense on X8. That's bad. Anyone want to take care of this project?
Blagus said that we have to port HTC kernel first, but it's .32 or newer kernel. We have only .29 now. Therefore it follows that we can't have sense on X8 now.
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wow! is this ROM stable knowing that it came from cyanogen?? please can someone confirm this? it doesn't have any details of its features included on it...
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is stable but not complete!
It´s just the FXP 030, AFAIK.
I am just curious because I just put it on my Motorola Defy today and love it, I can only imagine how it would be on my Streak!!!
you know I just woke up with the same exact question. it's just a shame that my sister's old backflip can sport official support for cm7.1 and the streak doesn't.
I fear the main two reasons are the lack of support from dell (source codes etc) and the lack of developers. I myself am trying to understand how to actually make a rom just for the purpose of porting cm7.1 to the streak...
edit, I just realized that dj steve and fards are back on business with another rom. once those two guys have a rock solid version of gingerbred up and running on the streak, porting cm7.1 will be easy as pie...
I think Dell's strange 'customizations' to the hardware and unreleased source code for some obscure stuff (audio driver is one of the culprits iirc) are the things holding up a CM7 (or MIUI) release; i think a CM7 build could be theoretically done, but it would require lots of work and it might be really hard to get together as a daily usable rom.
Is probably for more than a year that DJ_Steve, fards and others have tried to convince Dell releasing source code for this stuff, but as of now it seems really unlikely we will ever get something.
Dell has released source code for the Dell Streak 5:
http://opensource.dell.com/releases/streak/
Is this incomplete or something that is not usable ?
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Dell has released source code for the Dell Streak 5:
http://opensource.dell.com/releases/streak/
Is this incomplete or something that is is not usable ?
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That is the kernel release, not the heart and soul of the Streak, that is why Steve, Fards, AWD and many others are hand jamming code. The release from the "Friend from the East" has helped, but is not everything they need in one single piece, again requiring more hand jamming of code. However 2.4 beta (Ginger Bread or AKA Ginger Streak)is working like a champ (IMHO).
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sorry for posting in the wrong place, still new around here, but ill try to make sure it doesnt happen again
and thats interesting, i think i might try a gingerbread ROM for the streak
can somebody tell me how it would differ from CM7? i am just curious how well the custom streak roms run compared to the CM7,
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sorry for posting in the wrong place, still new around here, but ill try to make sure it doesnt happen again
and thats interesting, i think i might try a gingerbread ROM for the streak
can somebody tell me how it would differ from CM7? i am just curious how well the custom streak roms run compared to the CM7,
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Well, since cyanogenmod has never been on the steak, there's no way to compare the two. I can tell you that it's awesome on my Aria.
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